Black and yellow Scottish plaid nail art skittelette

Hi, today I have a review with the Ladyqueen plaid water decal's. I received a sheet of paper which can be cut in any shape wanted, but if cutting according to my nails I could get 10 pieces, however I decided to make a skittelette nail art to make it more interesting. I painted my nails yellow to have a similar base as the water decals.

I first cut the rectangle shape of my nails and then rounded the edges to better fit my nails and to have less to remove. I used a little plate with water (the water height was like 5 mm), just enough to cover the paper. Important is to first remove the plastic before putting them in water, otherwise it might tattoo it self to the plastic..Then I used a tweezer to pick them up. The decal was easy to place since I could move them around and slide them into position. The water decals where quite sheer so it was really good I had a suiting base. After I let them dry from the water and later applied top coat. My pointer, which was my first finger looked great but when I applied tc to my others they smudge some, despite me being very careful. I will have to look into methods to avoid that in the future, advices are welcome. :)

Except for water decals I did black glitter gradients and also did 3 black texture nails. I felt it was unusual for me to make so contrasting nails to a manicure but somehow I liked it.

Now pics:

Polishes used (forgot to photograph the polishes)
Essence - Love Is In The Air
L.A. Girl - Uninhibited
P2 - Black Sand
Lady Queen Plaid Water decals with item ID: #NA0184 (more colors available)

Here you see the size of the paper and the color of polish I choose for my base. The paper was enough for 10 nails on the width. Length wise my nails could have been way longer.

Here you see how I cut them and you can also see them sliding off the paper. Here you can also somewhat see the sheerness of them, a neutral fresh base would be preferred. :)

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***Some products in this post have been provided for review, however it has not changed my opinion about them.***

31DC2013 Day 31; Dandelion nail art

OMG, the bitter sweet moment when the realization hits, this is the last day of the challenge and the prompt is honor nails you love. I'll miss the challenge even though it will be nice to have more free time too. Back to the subject, the theme can be interpreted pretty much however one sees it, I decided for a nail art that I really love (and that I've seen on so many nail art blogs) and for a long time wanted to recreate. I love dandelions, (especially the ones with the seeds flying in the wind) nail art's but also photos and tattoos (wouldn't mind a tattoo with it) The picture I was inspired by (well recreated) is this one, I changed the base color too pastel yellow and do I need to say that I absolutely looooved this and now I'll recreate many more times too.. haha :D

And in matte;

Polishes used;
Kleancolor - Pastel Yellow
Nordic Cap - NP12
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark

Pretty and Polished - I'm Not A Banana, swatch

I was thinking of having a easter theme this week on the blog, since easter is coming up. So the blog maybe will be more yellow and spring like than usual even though I don't think yellow is just for easter. I were yellow all year around, but I figured that easter could be a excuse to show it more. ;)

For to day I have this yellow jelly polish from Pretty and Polished called I'm Not A Banana.

The color shown on the photos feel color accurate and the yellow is of the darker kind, at least on my nails. It also has three sizes of glitter; white small glitter(maybe mini hexes?) and larger white hexagons and black hexagons in the same size. Whit the coats some white glitter appear yellow which is really cool.

Did you notice the VNL? Yea, I figured.. this is four coats but it reached its "full opacity" by two coats. But a jelly is a jelly and I knew that it wouldn't cover so well.

The formula was a bit thin and I had some problems getting glitter on the brush and had to place them since for example I had for some reason got only white glitter on one nail. ;)

I don't think I'll wear it like this alone again, I like that it feels ugly and beautiful in the same time but it's hard not to look at the nails and think that they are super stained with that nuance of yellow.

However, I know for a fact that it looks amazing layered over lighter shades so this bottle will be used! I've also have ideas with seriously cool nail art with this in the future so in the end I really love "I'm Not A Banana"

soooo shiny! look!

What do you think about this? Do you see the potential like me or is this just horrible with the vnl?

Cute black swans for Australia

Hi!
Now for a premiere here in the Gelic' nail art blog, I will do my first challenge! The lovely Shortylegs from Shortylegsbeauty is doing this challenge and she motivated me to start doing it as well. :)

 I can "warn" you that I wont have the time to do a country nail art every day so I'll post them every once in awhile. As you can see from the list, Australia is the first country out. I thought for a while and searched the web and amongst many things I actually got inspired from their coat of arms. Inside the shield one of the pictures where a yellow background with a picture of a black swan.

 Here in Sweden the swans are white so I figured that it would be cool to make a black swan nail art to it.

 I think they came out quite cute with their blue pearl rhinestones eyes.

 I actually dabbed two yellow colors on the nail to make it more interesting but that didn't show so much in the photos.

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Neon Yellow
Kleancolor - Pastel Yellow
Kleancolor - Black
Jordana Pop Art - Black
Sure Promise (orange)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Silver
1MM blue pearl rhinestone

This is actually not my first bird nail art, I have a white Swan in love nail art art and a pink Cute Flamingo bird nail art. Check them out if you like. :)

So what do you think about this? Any Australian readers out there? :D

Humble Bee funky french

Let's continue with another one of my awesome favorite polishes! ;) This polish is also one of those I hold closely to my heart. And a funny story is that I wasn't aiming to buy it in the first place, I was actually buying Floam, saw this one and figured that I needed fill up the basket. Now I like this one better than Floam, way better actually. In my dreams I wish there was a green humble bee, or a red humble bee or a blue humble bee..you know. I just love matte neon glitter! :)

Humble Bee from I'm feeling nail venturous/ninja polish is glitter polish in a clear base. The glitters appear in two sizes, small round matte yellow neon glitters, small round matte black glitters and larger hexagon matte black glitters.

For this I used 5 coats to reach opacity. However I used very thin coats to make drying time acceptable since I'd heard that this one (and like Floam) take some time to dry. And I honestly think that for a full manicure maybe 3 coats would be enough. Here when making a funky french, VNL is totally unexcepted since that would look like crap.

 More about the opacity.. When I paint my nails with nail polish I start by shaking/rolling the bottle to mix the inside and then start with my right hand, thumb to pinkie, then my left hand. For this polish I recommend mixing the bottle before EACH hand because I noticed that my right hand which I started with got opaque on the third coat and the left on five coats. Even though there is suspension base holding up the glitter in the bottle, there so much glitter that it fells down anyhow. So I think it's important to mix it to be able to get the most on the brush.

More about drying time.. On the web site they claim that it has a bit longer drying time, and that you should wait for it to completely dry between each coat. I didn't wait that long for each coat and rather made everything in one go. And in my opinion it has a normal or even faster draying time than other polishes. Base coat and five coats on that might take some time for any polish but I didn't think this was no problems for me. It gets surface dry very quick and within some hours it was dried all trough, and this was with out Seché Vite. By this I compared with what I wore the day before this, 1 base coat + 1 coat of black + 2 coats of Chunky Holo Scarlet by Kleancolor which took all night to dry and some more.

A warning for Humble Bee and also Floam is that the edges of the nails get real sharp since of the glitter sticking out when it has dried completely. I actually scratched my self leaving small surface scars in the face during night time so a good idea is to gently file down any glitter sticking out, or painting the edge with top coat to smooth it of.

And about removing Humble Bee, yes and yes, it is hell removing, but SOO worth it! And with cotton drenched in acetone it only take at most a minute more than any other glitter, so like three minutes in total so I can't complain. ;)

I bought this from Ninja Polish and the shipping was quite fast, about 1,5-2 weeks.
(I think that they've changed the name to HumbleBee Floam now, I guess to show that it's alike as the regular Floam)

Hope you liked it and that you'll will have a great Sunday! :)
(A tip is to click the pictures to see them larger!;D)

Yellow and black geometrical shapes nail art

Here I have a manicure which is some what weird. A yellow creme base and random geometrical black creme polish shapes freehanded. Apparently not the shiniest manicure ever.. Not a favorite nail art either, however it is attention craving and just after I was done my boyfriend asked why I hadn't made them as a crash test dummy. I couldn't answer why but I think that it would have been a better idea than this.

Another thing is that they are free-handed, so the geometrical shapes doesn't look as sharp as I wanted them to be.

Polishes:
Paris memories (yellow)
Gabrini Elegant (black)

Black and yellow flower pedicure nail art

I'm showing of more pedicures. I almost never like my pedicure nail arts but maybe someone else like it or can get inspiration of it.

It is also that kind of pedicure nail art in which all nails have nail art on them. Simple otherwise is just to pimp the big toe.

Ehm, actually this reminded me of the Swedish Triss lottery (as the Swedish readers probably recognizes).